Self-supporting card.



Patented June l2, I900.

E. T. GIBSON.

SELF SUPPORTING CARD.

(Application filed Mar. 9, 1900.)

(No Model.)

J1 ar ,Zr Luenmr/ Ii-i: NORRIS PETERS cu PHOYDLITHOY, WASHINGTON n c and novel combination and arrangement of NITED STATES EDXVARD TINKI-IAM GIBSON, OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY.

SELF-SUPPORTING CARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 651,349, dated June 12, 1900.

Application filed March 9, 1900.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that LEDWARD TINKHAM GIB- SON, a medical officer in the United States Army, stationed at Fort Meade, in the county of Meade and State of South Dakota, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Self-Supporting Cards, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in cards or blanks which are provided with means for supporting the card or blank in an upri ht position,which means may be folded to a mitof the article being packed for shipping.

Under date of April 20, 1807, I was allowed Letters Patent of the United States No. 580,858 for a self-supporting card comprising a central or .display portion provided with two lateral marginal portions and two horizontal portions so attached to each other and to the said central portion that the forward bending of the lateral marginal portions would occasion a rearward projection of the horizontal portions, and thereby support the said central portion in an erect position; and the object of this present invention is to do away with the necessity of having a folding support attached to both lateral margins of the display portion of the blank, and thereby admit of a lithographed figure of a woman or of a piece of furniture or of a house or of any suitable figure or group of figures being placed on the display portion of the blank and when erected made to appear quite natural by reason of the fact that only one lateral margin of the lithographed figure is connected with a folding support, while its other lateral margin is cut to correspond with the outline of that margin of the figure.

I accomplish my object by having the lower horizontal edge of the display portion of the blank carried downward, so that the said edge, when the figure is erected and the folding support attached to oneof the lateral margins of the figure is bent to prevent its falling backward or forward, will be on the same plane as the lower edge of the bent folding support.

My invention consists in the construction parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated Serial No. 8,098- (No model.)

in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereunto annexed.

Figure 1 is a face view of the paper invention when flat, showing the display portion formed to pictorially represent the figure of a ,woman and a supporting portion formed in connection with one lateral margin of the display portion. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the display portion formed to pictorially represent the figure of a boy. Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the display portion formed to represent a chair. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of Fig. 1 erected. Fig. 5 is a view of the erected Fig. 1 from the end provided with the supporting portion.

My invention is made of one continuous blank of paper, which is divided by a creased line A and an incised line B into a display portion 0 and a supporting portion D. p The direction of the said creased line tends to the vertical but the object of this invention being to admit of the chosen lithographed figure appearing quite natural when erected the direction of the creased line is made to correspond as far as a straight line can with the outline of the lateral margin of the lithographed figure along which it is formed. By thus forming the creased linealong the outline of the front of the womans dress in Fig. 1 the woman appears quite natural when erected. This is also the case with the chair in Fig. To the lateral margin selected in the case of the figure of the boy in Fig. 2 for the attachment of the supporting portion the creased line is so directed as to leave the cut outlines of the boys figure as free as possible and yet afford sufficient dimensions to the supporting portion. While the height to which the uppermost extremity of the said creased line A is carried above the level of the lower horizontal edge 0' of the display'portion O is a matter of choice, as is also that of the point of the attachm ent of its lower extremity to one extremity of the said incised line B above the level of the said lower horizontal edge 0 of the display portion, yet if the said creased line A were continued downward by an imaginary line A the lower end of this said imaginaryline would in my invention be found to end-at its point of junction with an imaginary line 0 which lat ter is on the same plane as is the lower hori 'z'ontal edge 0 of the display portion. Passing through this said point of junction of the said imaginary line A with the imaginary line C is the line D, which forms two right angles with the creased line A and imaginary line A and forms the lower edge D of the supporting portion D. The said supporting portion D is composed of two portions D and D the former of which when it is desired to erect the figure is bent backward on the creased line A to a right angle with the surface of the back of the card and by this rearward bending causes the portion D to project forward at a right angle with the face of the card or display portion, and through the agency of the said rearward projection of the portion D and the forward projection of the portion D the display portion 0 is prevented from falling backward or forward and is prevented from falling to one side by reason of the weight of the portion 0 and from inclining to the other side by reason of the fact that the level of the lower horizontal edge ()"of the display portion 0 is, when the supporting portion is bent as hereinbefore described, on the same plane as is that of the lower horizontal edge D of the supporting portion D.

The construction herein shown enables newspaper publishers to print figures in their papers which, when out out by the children,

will stand up, and the use of the inveli= tion has already been contracted for by the Boston Globe, which shows that it is useful.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is a A self-supporting card comprising a portion pictorially representing a figure, or group of figures,one lateral marginal portion separated from the pictorial portion by a creased line on which it is bent backward at a right angle to the surface of the back of the pictorial portion, an under portion out free from the lower margin of the pictorial portion but left continuous at one extremity with the body of the said lateral marginal portion in order that the said rearward bending of the said lateral marginal portion may occasion a forward projection of the attached under portion, and the said pictorial portion having, when the card is erected, its lower horizontal edge on the same plane as the lower horizontal edge of the said lateral marginal portion and said under portion, as herein described and for the purpose specified.

EDWARD TINK HAM GIBSON.

Witnesses:

WEsLEY A. STUART, H. L. (Iowa. 

